Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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